Latest News Briefs – Page 313
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Daniel Swarovski Crystal Eyewear and Domo Adami, a well-known Italian...
Daniel Swarovski Crystal Eyewear and Domo Adami, a well-known Italian brand of bridal wear and accessories, evening and ceremonial dresses, have signed a co-marketing deal to raise the visibility of both companies within the bridal sector. The agreement takes effect from mid-October 2008 and will be centered on Atelier Domo ...
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Intercast Europe, now a subsidiary of PPG Industries, has appointed...
Intercast Europe, now a subsidiary of PPG Industries, has appointed Augen Optics as an authorized distributor for its high-performance NXT Rx lenses in order to increase their penetration on the American market. With a laboratory set up in Mexico in 1986, Augen is a worldwide producer of ophthalmic lenses and ...
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A survey of 1,400 French opticians conducted by Bien Vu...
A survey of 1,400 French opticians conducted by Bien Vu shows that only 15 percent of their customers ask for a specific brand of lenses or ask about its name. Another 30 percent shows some interest in the brand, but 55 percent don't care about the brand of the lenses ...
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Glassesdirect.co.uk, the pioneer of the concept of selling glasses online,...
Glassesdirect.co.uk, the pioneer of the concept of selling glasses online, has remained untouched by the competition from other companies entering the field such as Boots Opticians, Specsavers and Tesco. Glasses Direct's founder, Jamie Murray Wells, told Optician magazine that this is because they are working ?on the high-street model? in ...
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Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, has...
Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, has found that contact lenses provide a better quality of life for children than eyeglasses. In a three-year study of 484 children aged 8 to 11 in the USA, the subjects who were randomly assigned to wear contacts were found to ...
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Advanced Medical Optics has repurchased $181 million worth of promissory...
Advanced Medical Optics has repurchased $181 million worth of promissory notes using $97.1 million from its senior revolving credit facility. With these purchases, AMO has reduced its $1.54 billion debt by about $84 million. The company said it still have almost $200 million in borrowing capacity on its credit facility.
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The Vision Council, the U.S. trade group, has released voluntary...
The Vision Council, the U.S. trade group, has released voluntary guidelines on lead contents in eyeglasses to its members in the wake of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008, which mandates maximum lead levels in products for children 12 and under. As eyewear is considered as medical equipment, ...
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Great Glasses, a Canadian chain of 23 franchised optical retail...
Great Glasses, a Canadian chain of 23 franchised optical retail stores, has been ordered by an appeals court to pay 34 million Canadian dollars (€21.1m-$26.3m) for selling corrective eyewear without an eye doctor's or an optometrist's prescription. The company had already been found guilty two years ago, but it decided ...
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Thierry Bouché, who spent 11 years with Oakley Europe, has...
Thierry Bouché, who spent 11 years with Oakley Europe, has joined the growing team of Sport Invest Search, the international executive recruitment agency set up in 2006 by Andy Gugenheimer, to run its Paris office. Gugenheimer is a former official of Oakley Europe as well. While Bouché developed and ran ...
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Kirk Originals has released a second film directed by Jon...
Kirk Originals has released a second film directed by Jon Klein, a surrealistic story of love at first sight that gets across the message that the brand's frames are hand-made in France. The avant-garde musicians The McCarricks are featured in the latest offering.
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Ic! Berlin, Horn-I, X-ide, Gold & Wood and Porsche Design...
Ic! Berlin, Horn-I, X-ide, Gold & Wood and Porsche Design were elected as the winners of the annual «Eyewear of the Year» awards at IOFT, the optical fair organized by Reed Exhibitions in Tokyo last Oct. 1-3. The leading Japanese show drew 15,811 visitors, slightly up from the 15,717 who ...
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The organizers of International Vision Expo West, held the first...
The organizers of International Vision Expo West, held the first weekend in October in Las Vegas, reported similar attendance as last year, when 12,816 eye care professionals visited the show. Final figures will be released in a few weeks. Despite the economic crisis, many exhibitors reported that they had good ...
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Christine Loisy has been appointed as the new managing director...
Christine Loisy has been appointed as the new managing director of GrandOptical, an international 231-store chain of GrandVision, replacing Manuel Conejero who has already announced his departure as of next Jan. 1. Loisy joined GrandVision in 1997 to handle product and marketing at GrandOptical. She then took charge of frames ...
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Optic 2000 has appointed a 33-year-old manager, Imad El Mekhtoum,...
Optic 2000 has appointed a 33-year-old manager, Imad El Mekhtoum, to run its 10-year-old Swiss operation, which currently counts 41 stores, including 12 in the German-speaking part of the country. The new executive, who comes from Morocco, worked previously in marketing at Carrefour in Switzerland. He will report to Yves ...
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Bushnell Outdoor Products' chairman, president and chief executive, B. Joseph...
Bushnell Outdoor Products' chairman, president and chief executive, B. Joseph Messner, will step down from the management, remaining as a senior advisor with a significant financial stake. Rob Sharp, CEO of MidOcean Partners, which took over majority control of Bushnell last year, will be the company's new president. The existing ...
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Silvio Vecellio Reane has resigned as chairman of Allison, a...
Silvio Vecellio Reane has resigned as chairman of Allison, a post he occupied since last December when he handed over the management to his long-standing partner, Antonio Bortuzzo, former chief executive of Marcolin. Some 10 years ago the two men turned a small manufacturing company with turnover of around €5 ...
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Eye Care Centers of America will have a new chief...
Eye Care Centers of America will have a new chief operating officer, James Eisen, as of tomorrow as James Denny steps down. At the same time, George Gebhardt, executive vice president for merchandising, will step up to become the 417-store chain's chief merchandising officer. Eisen was recently senior vice president ...
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The 61-year-old Wardale Williams Opticians in the U.K. has been...
The 61-year-old Wardale Williams Opticians in the U.K. has been bought by Jonathan Foreman, who owns three Observatory the Opticians, and Martin Russ, owner of TMR, an optical business and training consultancy. Wardale Williams has four stores. Its three partners will remain as employees; the fourth partner left the business ...
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Essilor has obtained a majority stake in Omega Optix, the...
Essilor has obtained a majority stake in Omega Optix, the leading chain of prescription laboratories in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in a bid to expand in Eastern Europe. Omega generates revenues of more than €10 million. It will continue to operate independently under its current management.
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Hoya Vision Care has bought Dioptra, a leading distributor of...
Hoya Vision Care has bought Dioptra, a leading distributor of eyewear products in the Czech Republic based in Turnov. The company has been distributing Hoya's lenses exclusively there since 2000. Employing 32 people, it made a turnover of more than €4 million in the past year.
